Technical advice, help understanding the genealogical community's needs, potential collaborators, a place to ask questions or gripe about unfortunate data.

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Tracy

Conger

Tracy

Bachelors of Arts Spanish, Math, Computer Networking Theory

very much beginner with programming, but have C++ experience, Legacy, Roots Magic

Chilean Researcher 10 years.

Starting on some powerful concepts that will help beginning genealogists to have a focus and direction. This focus includes hints for possible specific microfilms to look at and on FS Family Tree having easy access to tables of contents for online indexes of records. I'd like to do this in Spanish, then English, then Italian.

I'm open to either.

Open for offers. I like what Justin York does. Using FindARecord I see a very cool focus.

Just want to help other people who share 50% - 100% of the same vision.

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Bob

Coret

Bob

Computer Science

Dutch genealogical services (freemium model)

standards checker (open data, semantic, GEDCOM, etc.), so more organisation adhere to standards and more "third parties" can make creative stuff

I'm also an amateur programmer. I have some limited experience with HTML/CSS/JS, as well as Python

I really like the WeRelate model of public trees, unowned by anyone.

I'm also interested in automated retrieval of sources and suggestions of relationships based only on sources.

Linux

Going to school :)

I mostly want to be an observer. To keep up with what's going on in genealogy development

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Brooke

Ganz

Brooke

I was an English major (!), but am a self-taught computer geek. Did my first site for pay circa 1995.

Prior to becoming a full-time mom a few years ago, I was the senior web developer and/or lead programmer for a number of media companies out here in Los Angeles. These days I freelance part-time for small businesses who need web presences or programming work.

I am on the board of a non-profit genealogy organization (and I volunteer with other ones). I developed (and am continuing to develop) software to help them publish their record collections in an easy to use and accessible manner. We collect content from various fairly-inaccessible archives and universities and libraries -- content that is not available elsewhere -- and put it online, for free (~200,000 records so far, and counting). I am also revamping several genealogy organizations' websites to create members-only content linked to these records.

1) Historical GIS data! Especially for 19th Century and early 20th Century Eastern Europe. Would love a great map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's provinces and sub-districts, or the Russian Empire.

2) A placenames standardization service, like the REST API that Dallan Quass is working on, would be fantastic. I want to have a way to automatically look up the modern name, alternate spellings, and locations (lat/long) of any little town I throw at it, and then incorporate the responses into my apps.

3) An open source version of a records transcription system, with automatic comparisons between two different transcribers inputs, solved through arbitration. In other words, an open source version of the Ancestry World Archives or FamilySearch Indexing apps -- except it should ideally be web based, not something installed on individual systems. Add in gamification and leaderboards for transcribers to keep them motivated.

Mac for home, Linux for development work.

LeafSeek.com

I would love to see the genealogy commmunity have more open source, freely available tools, not owned or operated by any centralized group or for-profit company. This means everything from open transcriptions systems to open record publishing/search systems, to open placename standardization systems, and so on. We need a simple but robust toolbox of freely available stuff for genealogically-inclined devs to play with.

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Robert

Hoare

Rob

Working around the world

My existing commercial web sites (not genealogy related) are PHP/MySQL but I'm looking closely at newer technologies for any new development. In an earlier life, was a mainframe computer consultant in many countries - so it's coming full circle really, with "web apps" going back to the client-server model. On the genealogy side, lots of experience with online sources for UK, Canada, some US.

My aim is to save research as I go along and allow me to link up connections - people, places, events - record justifications for conclusions, show full audit trail of all actions. A "family tree" is just one type of report from this, should be equally usable for a village history, or a detailed biography of one person.

Linux but anything should be web based (and responsive) so it's usable in any device, especially tablets.

Working on how to store sources obtained online, back-end data formats, name seaching, placenames, server apis related to all this, and ways to do this that work within the usually too-restrictive terms-of-use of online sites.

Understanding what everybody else is doing to avoid duplication of effort, so that various different applications can be assembled from components for different types of users. Getting ideas and feedback from others for use cases I've never considered.

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Louis

Kessler

Statistics / Computer Science

Genealogy software, software development (I use Delphi), GEDCOM, software marketing, member of APG, long time genealogist, ancient history includes computer chess program named Brute Force.

http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/foryou.php

I'm a Windows guy, but Delphi can develop multi-platform and I have plans to do so.

www.beholdgenealogy.com and www.gensoftreviews.com

I want to see everyone working together to improve the way genealogy software works.

When I worked at FamilySearch in 2002-2004, we showed new Family Search to Elder Eyring and someone asked him what he thought. He said "Genealogy needs to be like a game. People spend time doing things they enjoy. This looks too much like filling out tax forms." I've thought about that ever since. I want to create a browser-based online/offline evidence-based genealogy app with a game loop: (1) enter what you know, (2) the system recommends collections to fill in what you don't know, (3) you go to those sites, find records that look promising, and use a browser extension to copy the information back to your tree, (4) others in your family review what you've found, (5) you get rewarded - maybe you get coins to buy things to help build a family city or your name goes higher on a leaderboard, (6) loop back to step 2

Linux desktop for development, windows laptop for software that doesn't run on linux

WeRelate.org, REST apis for places, dates, and names standards, gedcom to json parser (soon to be a REST api), app for crowdsourcing a catalog of genealogy resources that is REST-accessible

Collaboration, technical advice, understanding what everyone is working on so we don't re-invent the wheel, a friendly community of people working together

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Tony

Ruscoe

Tony

Computer Science

Information Architect at Google but I have 12+ years commercial experience as a Web Developer

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, basic Chrome extensions, a little bit of Python, and lots of old MS technologies like ASP and SQL Server

All of the above (in different quantities)

Involved with Historical-data.org and Chrome extensions

Open standards and tools for displaying, storing, and exchanging genealogical data

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Colin

Spencer

Colin

Retired IT manager

HTML, CSS, PHP MySQL Wordpress etc

1: All in one app, evidence based 2: Excel to Gedcom Converter

Linux servers, Windows desktop

1: Online collaboration tool for One-Name studies could be used for conventional genealogy studies too. 2: Some people use Excel to record their family history information and this tool converts an Excel CSV file into a Gedcom suitable for input to a Family History programme.

Help and advice and an understanding of what everyone else is working on.

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Luther

Tychonievich

Luther

Computer Science

Theory, proofs, education; development in various languages as needed

Tools that record the structure of research itself, not just free-form text or structured conclusions

Agnostic

Coordinating FHISO's TSC; designing a data model that represents the research process itself.

I believe in community in the abstract but have yet to develop particular desires re. this community.

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Justin

York

Computer Science

JavaScript, PHP, LAMP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery

App that scans my publicly viewable but not editable tree and automatically searches for records, similar to ancestry, but also tells me where to look for information that is missing if it can't find it -- a la 20 Minute Genealogist

RootsSearch

Collaboration on difficult genealogy issues as well as their solutions

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Thomas

Wetmore

Tom

Computer Science, Genealogy

Software developer for 45 years; genealogist for 25. Experienced with all areas of "classical" software (compilers, operating systems, databases, networking). Ph.D. in computer science in the compiling and performance analysis areas. Author of genealogical program, LifeLines. Author of DeadEnds genealogical data model. Now semi-retired and doing consulting work in a variety of genealogical software areas (natural language processing of obituaries, family reconstruction using census data, ...). Now using Objective-C on Mac OS X almost exclusively. Many years of experience in C, Java, C++, in many environments.

Genealogical program with full research support. Staring with sources and records ("personas"), ending with conclusion persons. Conclusion persons are wrappers for records.

Apple first, Linux second

Various genealogical software consulting projects.

Learning what others see as the big issues in genealogical software, and learning from their ideas.

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Johnson

Dick

Mathematics, computers, genealogy

Bulk remote publishing structured sets of files to Drupal and WordPress. An example would be publishing genealogy data extracted from a GEDCOM file. Also extracting and archiving web site pages in various formats, eg PDF, epub. See www.newsfromnan.com. Expertise: Python, C, PHP, Drupal, XML, DITA.

Windows

Cleaning up lack of sources in my family tree.

Find out what others are doing.

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Miles

Pomeroy

Biology, now Software Engineer

Database, Java, Web

Apple desktop, Linux server

Ancestor Trek

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Jonathan

Stowell

Jon

Chemistry

Data, databases, data models

I dream about lots of apps! Certainly a large, all in one, evidence based system is tempting but also risky. I am also interested in surety models.

Help develop a shift in the way people think about genealogy and how we manage its data. Collaboration, ideas, vetting etc.

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James

Mason

Jim

Computer Science

Parallel Computing, Software Engineering

No single app - a universe of clients and special purpose servers with common APIs

Linux, Windows if threatened w/sharp stick

Between efforts

Peers with vision

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Heather

Henderson

Heather

Genealogy, Design

Creative Suite, Genealogy, HTML, CSS (learning other useful stuff)

Windows

Support others as needed

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Debbie

Holtzendorff

Debbie

Math, Computer Science

PHP, MYSQL, Web, Genealogy

Windows and Apple

FamilySearch Simplified Research

Help from others

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Neil

Saunders

Neil

Computer Science

Digital Humanities

Building the Geopast.com

Well theoretically Apple is Linux :) Both rule!

Geopast.com

Keeping in touch with developments in this space

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Shimmy

Weitzhandler

Shimmy

Computer Science, Genealogy

C#, .NET, C++, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS and more

Windows

Find out what other are doing.

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Thiago

Prado

Prado

Computer Engineer

C#, .NET, C++, Java, Databases and hardware interfacing

OCR for old recods and record image browsing/viewing app for android

Win/Linux & Android

Find me a project to work on and let's go! If I can find more people with some expertise willing to work on dream projects, let's begin!

Auto-generate timelines with family's multi-generation events interleaved plus narratives and photos to make a family history a more compelling and quick read.

Win/Linux

MyFamilyPaths.com

Collaboration, see other ideas, get feedback. Help with FamilySearch SDK. I'm a newbie to Family History software. Mostly exploring. Looking for projects to help with and also wanting to learn Go programming. I am a longtime software programmer but have been working as a manager for the past decade...wanting to keep some programming skills.

Wrote GEDCOM libraries (in C) for the family history dept., way back in 1990. Working on slidetrip.com, which generates on-line presentations and fosters collaboration and prints interactive books. Javascript, JQuery, SVG for html, Node.js, XML, some Mongodb, greensock

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